Data Science Week 2021

The advancement of technology and specifically the availability of a greater than ever computational power have given rise in recent years to the conditions necessary for the birth of the new research area of Data Science.

Data Science is an interdisciplinary field which joins together ideas and tools from Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, and Software Engineering, among others, and which bases its most important conclusions on evidence coming from data.

Data Science has revolutionized research methodology in health science, biology, economics, social sciences, climatology, and several more of the social and hard sciences. The results produced by this new paradigm have been extraordinary and can be seen in our everyday life. Personalized Medicine, Self-Driving Cars, fingerprint/image recognition, and GPS navigation are all products of the Data Science revolution.

Beautifully enough, these exciting results and the remarkably effective techniques of Data Science are not only largely accessible to non-experts, undergraduate and graduate students, and practitioners, but also benefit from this interaction of researchers coming from academia, industry, government organizations, and local communities.

The Data Science Week 2021 is the third edition of the Data Science Week at Purdue University Fort Wayne and is intended to bring together the different populations in the metropolitan Fort Wayne region that work in Data Science and to demonstrate to our students the important role that Data Science plays in our everyday life and research. The Data Science Week 2021 will be the perfect occasion to launch a new inter-departmental Data Science Institute at Purdue University, Fort Wayne.